The Wawel Dragon

Once upon a time in Krakow there lived a King with his daughter, the beautifull Princess. They lived in a castle next to the river Vistula. The castle was on a hill called Wawel Hill.
Everybody in Krakow was happy and they loved their King. All the knights wanted to marry the Princess and brought her gifts. But the King always said: "No, you are not good enough for my daughter."
One day, a dragon came to Krakow. He found a cave at the bottom of Wawel Hill and lived there.
The dragon was very big and always very hungry. Everyday he went to the fields and ate the cows, sheep and horses.
Soon the people started to put their animals in their houses. So the dragon got very hungry and very angry.

The dragon flew to a house.
"Give me yours animals!" he roared.
The people in the house were so scared they ran away. The dragon then breathed fire and burnt down the house and ate all their animals.
The next day, the people of Krakow went to the king.
"Your Highness. You must do something. Soon we will have no animals and no homes!"
So the King said:
"The brave man who can kill the dragon will marry my daughter, the Princess, and I will give him half the kingdom."
"The man who can kill the dragon will marry the Princess!" the people of Krakow said to their friends. Soon everyone in the kongdom heard the news. Many brave knights came from far away to kill the dragon.
The first brave knight went to the cave with his sword above his head.
"Come out dragon and meet your end!" he shouted.
The dragon came out, laughed and ate the knight.
The second brave knight went to the cave with his sword above his head.
"Come out dragon and meet your end!" he shouted.
Again the dragon laughed and ate the knight.
The third brave knight went to the cave with his sword above his head.
"Come out dragon and meet your end!" he shouted. But when he saw the dragon he got scared and ran away.
Soon, there were no more knights brave enough to kill the dragon.
"Oh what will I do now?" said the King in his castle. Just then, there was a knock at the door.
"Enter!" said the king, and a young Shoemaker walked in.
"I will kill the dragon," the Shoemaker said.
"But you are just a shoemaker. How can you kill the dragon?"
"I may be just a shoemaker, but I am clever, and I will kill the dragon if you give me some wool and sulphur."So the King gave the Shoemaker some wool and sulphur. In the evening the Shoemaker put the sulphur in the wool and started sewing.
When he finished, it looks like a sheep. At night the Shoemaker put it outside the dragon's cave.
When the dragon woke up, he was hungry. He went outside and saw the sheep.
"Hm, breakfast" he said and ate the sheep.
The sulphur went into rhe dragon's tummy. He soon became very, very thirsty.
"Oh, oh, my tummy!" shouted the dragon, breathing out fire. He ran to the river and drank and drank. But he was still thirsty. So he drank some more.

But he was still thirsty. He drank more and more and got bigger and bigger, until Bang! The dragon burst like a big balloon.
- Hurray! - shouted the people of Krakow "Hurray for the Shoemaker!" And they carried him on their shoulders to the King.
The Shoemaker married the Princess and the King gave him half the kingdom. And al lthe people of Krakow lived happily ever after.
THE END